Our newest creation from the kitchens of The Right To Rock calls forth the tastes and smells of a summer fair - most notably, that venerable mainstay of carnivals, the caramel apple. I chose the delicate fruitiness of Unibroue’s Epherme beer for its obvious green apple effervescence and paired that with the sublime simplicity of Häagen-Dazs’s Dulce De Leche (or, caramel) ice cream for a combination that rewards the adventurous drinker. On a hot Louisiana day, this is the apéritif for what ales you…

Turtlehead dropped this in our e-mail today and we thought we’d pass it along. Just imagine coming in from a hot day after mowing the lawn, resurfacing the pool, or burying a body in the Bonneville Salt Flats and kicking back with a well-deserved respite of this concoction. The beer’s orangey taste (originating from orange peel, honey and even a little orange flower extract for good measure) is complimented nicely by the sweet ice cream’s intoxicating Lehua honey payload. It’s like an orange creamsicle that gives you a buzz (well, after enough of them maybe). Enjoy the summer, kids.

A tribute to C.C. Banana (only because we couldn’t think of a heavy metal tie in to bananas), this is easily our best beer float to date. It all started with trying to concoct a beer version of Bananas Foster and this is what we came up with. The smooth and creamy sweetness of Rogue’s beer is complimented perfectly with HD’s Dulce De Leche ice cream with the cinnamon undertone that kicks it up a notch on the flavor scale. Splash on a little Creme de Banana for bite and you’ve got a dessert brew that kicks monkey ass.

As featured in our first podcast, the smooth carbonation of Warsteiner Dunkel (German for “dark”) is complimented by the richness of Ben & Jerry’s pure Madagascar Vanilla ice cream. It’s a beer float at its most understated and it’s a good place to start your beer and ice cream odyssey.